94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB0999

 

Introduced 2/18/2005, by Sen. Carol Ronen - Emil Jones, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
405 ILCS 5/2-101   from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101

    Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legal disability.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning health.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 2-101 as
6 follows:
 
7     (405 ILCS 5/2-101)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-101)
8     Sec. 2-101. No recipient of services shall be presumed
9 legally disabled, nor shall such person be held legally
10 disabled except as determined by a court. Such determination
11 shall be separate from a judicial proceeding held to determine
12 whether a person is subject to involuntary admission or meets
13 the the standard for judicial admission.
14 (Source: P.A. 85-971.)